Metadata: Elections in Krakow
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- Oddział III, 30-960 Kraków, ul. Sienna 16
- Phone number:
- +48 (12) 422 40 94
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 29/100/0
- Title:
- Elections in Krakow
- Title (official language):
- Wybory w Krakowie
- Creator/accumulator:
- City Council of Krakow; Council of State; Statistical Bureau of the City of Krakow; Land Seym; electoral committees; Senate of the [Second] Republic of Poland; Seym of the Republic of Poland
- Date(s):
- 1865/1938
- Date note:
- 1875-1914; 1866-1933; 1900-1915; 1919; 1918-1919; 1922-1930; 1935; 1937-1938
- Language:
- Polish
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 9 units (0.70 linear metres)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds illustrates the political activities of the Jewish population of Krakow in the second half of the 19th century, before World War 1, and in the interwar period of 1918-1939. Each of the units includes a considerable amount of Jewish-related material. Most of this consists of electoral laws, regulations and instructions, circulars, printed matter (including forms), election notices, proclamations and advertisements of electoral committees, curricula vitae of those standing for election, press clippings, statistical breakdowns detailing the Jews of Krakow and their electoral preferences. The collection of documents is partly unarranged, materials generated by official institutions are mixed with other material that is loosely connected with the elections.
29/100/1: Proclamations of pre-electoral committees (Warszauer, Dattner and others listed as members); invitations to electoral meetings; notices of the Presidium of the kaiserlich und königlich (k.u.k.) Governor’s Office in Lwów (Jews listed among landowners entitled to elect their deputies); printed matter (in Hebrew) of Jewish electoral committees (Landau, Krongold, Schmelkes).
29/100/2: Electoral advertisements, the press, lists of professions, 1875-1911; satirical drawings related to elections (featuring Warschauer, among others); copies of Antysemita periodical (containing antisemitic articles, including on Jewish bankruptcies and crime, alleged threat posed by Jews, and the like); Jews in lists of Council of State electoral committees (Birnbaum, Blumenstock. Deiches, Mendelsburg, others); in lists of pre-electoral committees; in election leaflets (e.g., Warschauer) and information materials of electoral committees; photographs of candidates (press clippings); and, in vocational lists forming separate electoral curiae; election posters/advertisements in Hebrew.
29/100/3: Minutes of sessions of the City Council (Józef Sare, Landau, Beringer, Ehrenpreis, Schreiber, Tilles); proclamations of a Zionist organisation for Lesser Poland (Małopolska); election forms in Hebrew; supplement of Głos Narodu newspaper, 1914, on the takeover of saving banks by Jews; lists of Krakow’s candidate city councillors from the latter half of the 19th c. (Oettinger, Samelson, Deiches, Schoenberg, Mendelsohn, Mendelsburg, Kaufman); Jews listed among Krakow councillors; Jews in electoral registers – the ‘Great Trade Group’.
29/100/4: Statistical material related to the reform of the electoral regulations in Krakow, 1902-1913; Jews appearing in the statistics – for instance, by real estate, voters by district/quarter, religion and sex, by the number of eligible taxpayers, voters by profession practiced, Jewish issues in the 1913 draft electoral regulations reform.
29/100/5: Jews in electoral registers for the Chamber of Deputies from the constituency of City of Krakow, by district/quarter.
29/100/6: Jews (in alphabetic order) listed among those with the right to stand for the Seym election, by place of abode, in Chamber of Deputies’ electoral registers.
29/100/7: City divided into electoral districts; Jews among members of district election commissions (Dresdner, Feldman, Freylich, Matzner, Mischel, Weingarter, and others); reports of district election commissions specifying the established cast of the commission; documents of the Statistical Bureau of the City of Krakow specifying the ratio of the actual number of voters versus those eligible to vote, by religion (Christians vs. Jews), and showing the percentage distribution of votes cast versus individual groups of candidate lists (including Jewish parties); Jews listed among City Council delegates for district election commissions (Englaender, Liebeskind, Feiner, Mischel, others); calls for commission members (e.g. Horowitz) to appear at a session of their district election commission.
29/100/8: Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, No. 47, Item 322 – Understanding between the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Latvia in respect of social insurance, 1934 (Poland represented by Dr Stanisław Fischlowitz, Dr Witold Langrod); press clippings (Czas, Kurier Codzienny, Głos Narodu) discussing how voters of Jewish background voted in the Seym election; Jewish names on lists of final election results; journalistic columns on failures of Jewish candidates in the Seym election. Jewish press: Gazeta Żydowska – organ of the All-Jewish Electoral Committee in Krakow: informing on Jewish demonstrations; biography of Leopold Spira; election slogans exhorting to vote for Jewish candidates; articles on Krakow Zionists by Dr Seweryn Gottlieb; information on pre-election incidents involving Jews; advertisements of Jewish companies (in Hebrew) among press cuttings.
29/100/9: Materials re. Krakow electoral college; Jews listed among election candidates.
- Archival history:
- The records were gradually transferred to the City of Krakow Archives of Historical Records in the first half of the 19th century and in 1936 to the State Archives of Krakow.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In the period from 1861 to 1918 the Council of State was a two-chamber Austrian parliament which from 1867 on covered only the Austrian part of Austro-Hungary. From 1921 to 1939 the Seym (Sejm) of the Republic of Poland was the lower house of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland; the Senate of the Republic of Poland was its upper house. In 1919-22, Poland had a single-chamber parliament (the so-called Legislative Seym). The Land Seym (or ‘Galician Seym’) was the regional, one-chamber parliamentary assembly for Galicia – a land within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy; the body existed from 1861 to 1918. In operation since 1887, the City’s Statistical Bureau was a specialised administrative body of the local government of Krakow, responsible for statistical research on the population of Krakow and publication of its outcome in the Statistical Yearbook.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Beringer
- Birnbaum
- Blumenstock. Deiches
- Dattner
- Deiches
- Dresdner
- Ehrenpreis
- Feldman
- Fischlowitz, Stanisław
- Freylich
- Gottlieb, Seweryn
- Kaufman
- Landau
- Langrod, Witold
- Matzner
- Mendelsburg
- Mendelsohn
- Mischel
- Oettinger
- Samelson
- Sare, Józef
- Schmelkes
- Schoenberg
- Schreiber
- Spira, Leopold
- Tilles
- Warszauer
- Weingarter
- System of arrangement:
-
The fonds is arranged as follows:
29/100/1 [Election of deputies for the Land Seym in Vienna], 1865-1914
29/100/2 [Election for the Council of State in Vienna], 1875-1914
29/100/3 [Election for the Council of the City of Krakow], 1866-1933
29/100/4 [Statistical material related to the reform of the statutes and municipal electoral regulations for Krakow], 1900-1915
29/100/5-29/100/6 [Electoral registers for the Legislative Seym of the Republic of Poland from individual electoral districts and constituencies of Krakow], 1918–1919
29/100/7-29/100/8 [Election for the Seym and Senate of the Second Republic of Poland, 1922–1930, 1935, 1938]
29/100/9 [Materials of the Provincial {Voivodeship} Electoral College of Krakow, 1938 (Senate election)]
- Access, restrictions:
- If copies (microfilms, scans, photocopies) are available, these will be provided to the researcher. Access to original documents requires the Director’s consent.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2018
